A dramatic contrast, for example, to the usual treatment (such as that of Charcot) of women with hysteria, who were treated as if they were simply anatomical specimens. On October 14, 1900 ...

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If women received the correct treatment, “their lives could be saved”, according ... From every condition under the sun being diagnosed as “hysteria” from the classical period right up until the early ...

From pink pills to help women with so-called hysteria, to vaginal douches to keep them "clean", the historical displays show how gynaecology has often been dominated by superstition and ignorance.

narrator Bethany Cutmore-Scott explains the incredibly misogynistic origins and history of “hysteria”, noting that the word ...